How To Be a Successful Technical Trainer: Core Skills for Instructor Certification - Softcover

Keys, Terry; Zeff, Andrew; Keys, Terrance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072130334 ISBN 13: 9780072130331

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2000

Synopsis

Covers core competencies as approved by the International Board of Standards for Training Performance, including training styles, learning needs, communication, information synthesis, and instruction.

About this title

From the Back Cover

As an expert in your technical area, you may be indispensable to those around you. But, until you become a certified trainer, you won’t earn the career or financial recognition you deserve. This one-of-a-kind guidebook is designed to help you meet the need for competent trainers in the exploding technology sector. Follow instructional principles approved by the International Board of Standards for Training Performance. In addition to providing step-by-step teaching assistance, and developing your career, this invaluable resource may also help you become a more informed technical expert!

• Apply clearly defined and illustrated principles to your technical training regimen
• Communicate effectively with learners of diverse background and experience
• Convey authority while maintaining your personal style
• Provide positive reinforcement and motivational incentives designed to reach all learners
• Synthesize course information, personalities, and instructional media
• Cultivate multiple training styles to meet individuated learning needs
• Design coaching and feedback strategies, including student evaluations
• Pace lessons appropriately to maximize information absorption
• Determine objectives, evaluate the audience, then deliver effective presentations
• Accommodate training certifications that recognize CTT, including Novel’s CNI, Microsoft certifications, Adobe’s ACE, Corel’s CCI, and Lotus’ CLI

About the Author

Terrance Keys, CTT (New York, NY) is the Assistant Director of Instructional Support at SUNY Monroe Community College, where he oversees the Professional Development and Instructional Technologies/Distance Learning departments. Andrew R. Zeff (Chicago, IL) is Vice President of Zeff Training and Consulting (ZTAC, Inc.), a Microsoft Technical EducationCenter. He has over 12 years of experience as a network administrator, engineer, and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is also a Certified Novell Instructor. He is the author of iNet+ All-in-One Certification Exam Guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072130334
• ISBN 13: 9780072130331
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 389